The UK is completely under snow. What tips can help programmers who don't usually work from home survive the next few days.

Question

The UK is completely under snow. What tips can help programmers who don't usually work from home survive the next few days.???

I can think of remote desktop to your work desktop? What other things will make our days easier?

Answer 1

Hamachi would be my choice

Answer 2

Go out and completely empty the shelves of all the bread and milk...Not programming related but will certainly happen none the less.

Answer 3

If you can't remote desktop AND you need to work - ring you boss and get him to OK you to spend the time learning something new.

Answer 4

Most households have food supplies that should last a couple of days. If your water is cut off you can actually drink the water that's in the water reservoir on your toilet.

If you need to keep looters away, you can probably just throw a bucket of water in front of your doors and windows, which will make them fall over and hit their head.

When the premises are secure, I'll suggest the following:

SSH to a windows pc:

ssh -L 3389:yourhostnameattheoffice:3389 [email protected]

At home you run "mstsc localhost" on windows or "rdesktop localhost" on mac/linux.

If you don't have a SSH sever or firewall opening, and all of your it people are also snowed in you can use the McGyver version: Install openssh server at home, open port 22 in home firewall.

From your work pc, have someone do ssh -R 3389:localhost:3389 [email protected]

At home you do mstsc localhost or rdesktop localhost as before.

All of these assume that you do not have rdesktop service running on your home computer. If so, you'll have to choose a different port number.

Cheers from Oslo with -13 degrees C and lots of snow.